h slang for bad whisky.

1890. A. J. Vogan, `The Black Police,' p. 217:

"<i>Stringy-bark</i>, a curious combination of fusil oil
and turpentine, labelled `whisky.'"

<hw>Stringy-bark</hw>, <i>adj</i>. equivalent to "bush."

1833. Oct. `New South Wales Magazine,' vol. 1. p. 173:

". . . the workmanship of which I beg you will not scrutinize,
as I am but, to use a colonial expression, `a stringy-bark
carpenter.'"

1853. C. Rudston Read, `What I Heard, Saw, and Did at the
Australian Gold Fields,' p. 53:

". . . after swimming a small river about 100 yards wide
he'd arrive at old Geordy's, a stringy bark settler . . ."

<hw>Sturt's Desert Pea</hw>, <i>n</i>. a beautiful creeper,
<i>Clianthus dampieri</i>, Cunn., <i>N.O. Leguminosae</i>,
which will only grow in very dry, sandy soil. It is sometimes
called <i>Lobster's Claw</i>, from its clusters of brilliant
scarlet flowers with black-purple centres, like a lobster's
claw. Called also <i>Glory Pea</i> (q.v.).
See <i>Clianthus</i>.

1865. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, `History of the Discovery
and Exploration of Australia,' vol. i. p. 29:

"Amongst which appears the beautiful Clianthus, known to the
colonists as Sturt's desert pea."

[Footnote]: "Woodward in `Dampier's Voyages,' vol. iii. cap. 4,
pl. 2. The plant is there called <i>Colutea
Novae-Hollandiae</i>. Its name now is <i>Clianthus
Dampieri</i>. R. Brown proposed the name of
<i>Eremocharis</i>, from the Greek <i>'eraemos</i>, desert."

[Dampier's voyage was made in 1699, and the book published
in 1703. Mr. Woodward contributed notes on the plants brought
home by Dampier.]

<hw>Stump-jump Plough</hw>, <i>n</i>. a farm implement,
invented in Australia, for ploughing the wheat-lands, which are
often left with the stumps of the cleared trees not eradicated.

1896. `Waybrook Implement Company' (Advt.):

"It is only a very few years since it came into use, and no one
ever thought it was going to turn a trackless scrub into a huge
garden. But now from the South Australian border right through
to the Murray, farms and comfortable homesteads have taken the
place of dense scrub. This last harvest, over three hundred
thousand bags of wheat were delivered at Warracknabeal, and
this wonderful result must, in the main, be put down to the
Stump-jump Plough. It has been one of the best inventions this
colony has ever been blessed with."

<hw>Stump-tailed Lizard</hw>, <i>n</i>. an Australian lizard,